Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2022 So Far, With Max Forti
Best perfumes of 2022 (so far) as selected by Max Forti and award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
Best perfumes of 2022 (so far) as selected by Max Forti and award-winning perfume critic Persolaise
Bulgari’s Le Gemme Orientali Perfume prices continue to leap with a vigour that’s normally the preserve of Olympic athletes. Last year, Serge Lutens made a brave jump with the first…
It’s all happening at Burlington Arcade! Penhaligon’s have had a branch there for years, of course, but Chanel unveiled a store beneath the elegant, arched ceiling not too long ago,…
I’m reliably informed that mere hours before its official opening, a few sections of Harrods‘ Salon De Parfums didn’t even have a floor yet. Well, someone must have worked their…
In 2010, the site of the year’s most exciting perfumery event in the UK – the Perfume Diaries exhibition – was Harrods. And now, in 2014, it looks like the…
image: Roja Dove / Black Dog Publishing Roja Dove‘s much-loved coffee-table tome, The Essence Of Perfume, has just been re-printed in an extensively updated form. I haven’t yet seen its…
Image: Fragrance Foundation UK The people at Fragrance Foundation UK have just released the shortlist for this year’s Best Independent Perfume FiFi Award, a category for which I had the…
This week, I give you three interesting twists on familiar themes. First up is Florabotanica, the latest from Balenciaga. Basically, it’s yet another rose, but thanks to the skill of…
Do we really need another vetivert? Well, of course, the answer to that is No, but then, if perfumery were an art form driven by nothing more than need, it…
It’s all very well encouraging fragrance houses to propel the art of perfumery towards the future, but sometimes, it’s beneficial to look back to the past. Most other art forms…